Sharp Words

I really shouldn’t let bad grammar in song lyrics get to me, but I can’t help it!

I do listen to an awful lot of music; I have my own personal selection on my MP3 player during the day, and listen to the radio during car journeys and to wake myself up in the mornings.

Sometimes I can manage to ignore the grammatical errors, particularly if the lyric is indistinct, or not repeated in the song. Others make me grind my teeth though – one of those that’s been annoying me for a very long time is ‘between you and I’, in Hungry Eyes from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack (and probably other songs too).

Current irritants are (and believe me, they’re not songs I listen to voluntarily, nor would I even without the bad grammar):

• ‘I’m sorry I misleaded you’ – Take Me Back by Tinchy Stryder
• ‘It may not mean nothing to y’all’ – Forever by Drake and a whole other bunch of rappers

Grrrr. Argh. Anyone got any personal annoyances when it comes to ungrammatical lyrics?